Jen Kirkman is a wonderful comedian I just discovered on YouTube, although apparently she has been doing standup for quite a while.
How raising babies was different in the 1970s [4:03]:
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A bit of background:
Jen Kirkman was born in Needham, Massachusetts on August 28, 1974,[3] and is the youngest of three sisters. [...]
Kirkman majored in acting at Emerson College in Boston.[5]
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On traveling alone to Italy [3:32]:
She has written several books, as well as writing for television and her standup career:
I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING & OTHER LIES I TELL MYSELF
Hardcover Release April 2016
Paperback Release *updated material April 2017
A 40-something stand-up comedian’s blisteringly honest and hilarious account of a life still “majorly under construction.”
Kirkman offers no excuses for the freedom-loving woman she is or for her focus on building a career as a successful stand-up comic. Her life may appear chaotic and her lifestyle choices unconventional, but both are as uniquely individual as her book. Genuine, intelligent, and candid. - KIRKUS REVIEWS
www.jenkirkman.com/...
Why married people are the worst [9:32]:
She’s divorced, btw.
Jen Kirkman goes further in her dynamite new Netflix special, “I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine).” She has made jokes about marriage in her previous work, but now that she is divorced, her act has the feel of that wonderful moment at the end of a party when you are left alone to gossip with your best friend about the horrible and ridiculous things that just went on. “They always tell you date men who love their mothers,” she said, shaking her head like a survivor. “No. No. Date men who don’t have their mothers anymore.”
Ms. Kirkman, a Boston-bred comic now based in Los Angeles, has been performing since the late 1990s, but this is her debut special. (She has recorded two stand-up albums.) She has emerged recently as a buzzed-about comic through touring, appearances on “Chelsea Lately” and “Drunk History,” and most of all, a compelling and diversified Internet presence that has drawn considerable notice in recent years.
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When she got fat [4:12]:
A great interview with Stephen Colbert [7:12]:
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